Finally! 2200 in bullet

Finally! 2200 in bullet

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Notice: If you wish to get better at bullet, this blog will improve your bullet rating by 10 points. The cost? Around 300 points in standard chess. That's how bad bullet is for your chess.

Also search 2203 to find the picture that you see here. I'm too lazy to make my own pictures, in fact that is the key to being successful: plagiarize! My dad liked a song that says that Plagiarizing is the way to being successful, and that is definitely true! All of my blogs are written by someone else (except the bad ones), all of my chess skills are taken from an 1800 level engine, and all of my jokes are taken from somebody else, even this one! Anyways, let's continue.

Hi everyone! (Except the people I don't like, which is more than the people that I do like. A LOT more) Today I achieved an accomplishment that it is clear many of you think was really easy. 2200 in bullet! However, I think it was really impressive, being that I started the day off at 2110 (Thanks to the evil RookSacrifice making me sacrifice my rating). In the future I have to make sure that I play only unrated with players under 2000, particularly him, because he purposely keeps a low rating until he plays me, then he scores much better than his rating would suggest.

It took 32 games, but gaining 93 points in 32 games is not bad! Here are some of the key games that prove why I deserve to be 2200, and definitely I should also be a master at normal chess for this much more impressive accomplishment:
Cheapos for the win

If it doesn't cost anything to your position, and especially if your position is losing, why not threaten mate in one? Much of the time they won't catch it. That's what I learned in the first game of this amazing day.

"That guy was over 2100?", I thought. 2200 must be super easy! Luckily for me my premove openings turned out well for the 4 games. The first game I lost of the day was Game 6.
Being that I lost on time, I figured that I better play faster than I already was! So I did. I won my next 5 (!), and built my way up to 2175. Then I played a bughouse game with Andrew Fletcher, which might have been a mistake. My next game ended in a simple knight fork:
Why am I messing up so much? I thought. Fortunately my opponents were willing to do the same for me. My next game was funny because I had 18 seconds when he timed out in a drawn position, a clear sign that I was finally solving my time problems.
After a bunch of bad games, in which I seemed to make no progress at all, I landed at 2180. I was so close to 2200, surely I wouldn't fail now, right? (Of course I didn't, I already reached 2200)
The next game was equally lucky, as I only had 0.2 seconds left on the clock when delivering checkmate in a crazy time scramble.
Now at 2197, only one more game was needed. And sure enough, it came.
So there ends my lucky bullet streak, and now I am 2200! 
I'm coming after you good chess players next!
 
 

 

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Joseph Truelson

United States

Hi everyone! This is a (mostly inactive) blog that mostly covers my over the board tournament games. 

For those confused about RAR, the RAR movement is a rising phenomenon that is mentioned in many blogs. Don’t take it to have a definite definition, but RAR has something to do with being unethical (cheating and intimidating) or just plain lucky. 

Here is a list of my tournament blogs:

2015

Vancouver Open 

SCC Tornado

Seattle Fall Open: Day 1 

Seattle Fall Open: Day 2 

SCC September Tornado 

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 1

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 2 

2015 Northwest Chess Open  

Washington G/60 Championship Day 1 

Washington G/60 Championship Day 2 

KingCo Leauge Round 2 

KingCo League Round 5 

KingCo Leauge Round 6 

KingCo League Round 7 

KingCo League Round 8 

KingCo League Round 9 

2016

Seattle City Championship Day 1 

Seattle City Championship Round 4 

Washington Junior Open 2016

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 1

FIDE Junior Invitational Rounds 2-4

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 5

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 6

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 7

Clark Harmon Memorial Rounds 1-2

Clark Harmon Memorial Round 3 

Clark Harmon Memorial Round 5

Washington Open Scholastic

Washington Open Round 1 

SCC July Quads Round 1

SCC July Quads Rounds 2-3

SCC July Tornado Rounds 1-2

SCC July Tornado Rounds 3

SCC July Tornado Round 4

Seafair Open Round 1

Seafair Open Round 2 

Seafair Open Rounds 3-5

FIDE Invitational Round 1

FIDE Invitational Rounds 2-3

FIDE Invitational Round 4

FIDE Invitational Round 5

FIDE Inviational Rounds 6-7

FIDE Invitational Round 8

FIDE Invitational Round 9

SCC September Tornado Round 1

SCC September Tornado Round 2

SCC September Tornado Round 3

SCC September Tornado Round 4

Challengers Cup Round 1

Challengers Cup Round 2

Challengers Cup Round 3

Challengers Cup Round 4

Challengers Cup Round 5

SCC Extravaganza Round 1

SCC Extravaganza Rounds 2-7

Washington Class Scholastic

 2017

Washington Junior Open Rounds 1-3 

Washington Junior Open Round 4

Washington Open Scholastic 

Washington Open Rounds 1-3

Washington Open Rounds 4-5

Washington Open Round 6

SCC July Tornado 

Seattle Chess Classic Round 1

Seattle Chess Classic Rounds 2-3

Seattle Chess Classic Rounds 4-5 

2024

1st Concord Open

The RAR match against Samuel Deng!

Introduction

Exclusive Interview with RookSacrifice Part 1

Exclusive Interview with RookSacrifice Part 2

"Unbiased" Statistics

NEW SERIES: Falling Stars 

Falling Stars #1: Chesster3145 

Falling Stars #2: EOGuel

And of course, my "famous" essay extoling the virtues of cheating:

You should cheat! A RAR Research Paper